Aby Warburg 150 : Work, Legacy, Promise / edited by David Freedberg [and nine others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Freedberg, David, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Warburg, Aby, 1866-1929.

Warburg, Aby.

Warburg, Aby,-1866-1929.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (444 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Walter de Gruyter, [2024]

Summary:

Aby Warburg gilt als Wegbereiter der modernen Kulturwissenschaften. Der vorliegende Band versammelt Beiträge der renommiertesten Warburg-Forscherinnen und -Forscher. Sie befassen sich mit Warburgs herausragender Bedeutung für das Verständnis kulturellen Transfers und des Einflusses von Bildern und Texten über Zeit und Raum. Einmal mehr wird die anhaltende Bedeutung von Warburg für unsere Zeit deutlich. Eine unerlässliche Lektüre für alle, die sich mit den vielfältigen Formen des Überlebens der Vergangenheit in der Gegenwart und den komplexen Beziehungen zwischen Bildern und Gesellschaft befassen. Publiziert in Kooperation mit dem Warburg Institute in London und mit Unterstützung der Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America an der Columbia University, New York. Blick ins Buch

Aby Warburg is regarded as one of the great pioneers of modern cultural studies. This book brings together texts by many of the most renowned researchers in the field who have been influenced by his work. They address his extraordinary impact on the understanding of cultural transmission and the influence of images and texts across time and space. What emerges is the continuing significance of Warburg for our own times. No one concerned with the many forms of the survival of the past in the present and the infinitely complex relationships between images and society will want to miss this book. Published in cooperation with the Warburg Institute, London and with the assistance of a grant from the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, New York. Look inside

Contents:

Intro

CONTENT

Foreword

Preface

1. Promise

Warburg's Vision

2. Work - Concepts

Kulturwissenschaft before Warburg

Nachleben

Serendipity and "gute Nachbarschaft"

Warburg's Zwischenraum

Warburg's Atlas

3. Work - Themes

Aby Warburg's Pathosformeln

"From Darwin via Filippino to Botticelli … and back to the Nymph"

The Past in Gestures, the Future in Memory

"Chameleon of Energy"

4. Work - History

Aby Warburg's Berlin

Genesis without End

First Contact

Manet, Manebit

5. Legacy

The Power of Exempla and the Epistemology of the Humanities

Discharged Atlas

Hobbes's Leviathan Frontispiece

Method, Madness, Montage

The Desire for Materiality

Arabesque in Action

Epilogue

Warburg's Snail

My Grandfather at 150

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9783110725773

3110725770

OCLC:

1428235852